Author: Russell Reagan
Date: 13:45:16 02/01/04
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On February 01, 2004 at 15:30:14, David Dahlem wrote: >>That's the fallacy of CCT. If everyone is running on a different machine, what's >>being proven? >The best engine/machine combo. :-) Exactly right. There is absolutely no possible way to have an equal hardware event. Not practically, not theoretically. Even if the organizer could afford to buy the same machine for everyone, it wouldn't be fair. No matter what you do, you will get complaints. "My engine runs better on P4..." "My engine runs better on Athlons..." "My engine runs better on Xeon..." "My engine runs better on Opteron..." "My engine supports multiple CPUs, this isn't fair! I spent a lot of time working on multiple CPU support!" "My engine doesn't support multiple CPUs, this isn't fair!" "My engine runs better on 64-bit hardware..." "My engine doesn't get as big of a boost on 64-bit hardware as others do, this isn't fair!" And so on... The only way to do it is to treat each participant as one chess player. One author's strategy may be to focus on software imrpovements, another may choose to focus on hardware improvements (Brutus, Deep Blue, etc.).
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